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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 15640 |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Comments on Inventory | registered as existing during revision (1958) |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
| Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: high |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty: high |
| Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Elephantine |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | partage |
| Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1906 and 1908 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Color | papyrus, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 85 mm | 94 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The right part is broken off in undetermined extent. Some minor holes in the sheet. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Comments on Object | According to the inventory "Abschrift und Deutung von W. Erichsen" existing. |
| Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
| Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | The right part is broken off in undetermined extent. Some text damages. | |
| Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte, flüchtige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved!) sheet, without margins. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper half of the ^sheet, without upper and left margins. The lower half remains uninscribed, except for the address line. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 7 | 4+1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 95 | 95 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 80 | 40 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 95 x 80 | 95 x 40 |
| Modern Title | letter dealing with the delivery of grain and cattle |
| Ancient Archives | administrative archive of unclear context |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter of Snebonchis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer, to Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer, concerning the delivery of grain and cattle. According to Zauzich the scribe, whose name is lost here, can be identified through the identical handwriting on Pap. Berlin P. 15614-22667. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 865 | man | Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer (carrier-of-Ra and lesonis) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-nty-(n-)ḥ.t-nṯr | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 10345 | man | Hery-mesha | Ḥry-mšꜥ | Demotic | ||
| 9275 | man | Pa-ir-dit, son of Espmetis and his mother Arouhapemenfe | Pa-ỉr-ḏỉ.t sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr mw.t=f ꜥr(=w)-Ḥp-r-Mn-nfr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Late Period | -664 BCE -332 BCE | One person mentioned here is possibly identical with a man in Pap. Vindob D 10151, dated by Zauzich on 337 BCE.; |
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| DatasetID | 100430 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46528 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100430 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15640), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
